Fedora Weekly News Issue 274

Welcome to Fedora Weekly News Issue 274[1] for the week ending May 4, 2011. What follows are some highlights from this issue.

In announcements this week, we begin with details on the next FUDCon North America. Also notification that FESCo and Fedora Board elections will be coming soon, and notice of the Fedora 15 final change freeze. Ambassadors overviews the discussion this past week on the Ambassador and FAmSCo mailing lists, as well as new Ambassadors globally. Our issue winds up with security advisories this past week for Fedora 13, 14 and 15. Enjoy FWN 274!

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Fedora Announcements

FUDCon North America 2012 will be in Blacksburg, VA

"I am pleased to announce that the FUDCon conference in the North
American region in 2012 will be held from January 13th through 15th,
2012 on the campus of Virginia Tech in Blacksburg, Virginia, USA. We
had two excellent bids for the North American FUDCon (Blacksburg, VA
and Needham, MA) and both were excellent proposals. It was a
difficult decision to make, and I'd like to personally thank all those
who took the time to submit bids and to help in the decision-making
process.

Reason for outage:

Performing an upgrade of the Fedora Account System (FAS) which will require database schema changes. This requires taking down FAS while the schema is updated. While FAS is down, the dependent web application services will be unavailable.

Board and FESCo elections soon - Nominations open imminently

Just a quick reminder that the nomination period for this election cycle will open on 7 May 2011, and will close promptly on 15 May 2011 at 23:59:59 UTC.

This election cycle will fill 3 seats for the Board, and prior to the election the FPL will announce the first of two appointed seat in this cycle, with the second appointment announcement to follow after the election. For more information on nominations, and the process see:

Additionally the nomination period also serves as the time for the community to present questions to be posed of candidates. If you wish to ask questions to be answered by candidates, you can add them here[2]
Candidates will have the questions posed to them and responses made available to the community.

Please take time to consider yourself for one of these positions, and how you want to continue contributing to Fedora.

fedorapeople.org and the xen host it runs on became unreachable at
approx 21:50UTC today. A ticket has been filed to have on site
personel to investigate and fix the outage. No ETA is known at this
time. Please follow the ticket below for ongoing investigation.
We will restore service as soon as we are able.

Fedora Events

The purpose of event is to build a global Fedora events calendar, and to identify responsible Ambassadors for each event. The event page is laid out by quarter and by region. Please maintain the layout, as it is crucial for budget planning.
Events can be added to this page whether or not they have an Ambassador owner. Events without an owner are not eligible for funding, but being listed allows any Ambassador to take ownership of the event and make it eligible for funding.
In plain words, Fedora events are the exclusive and source of marketing, learning and meeting all the fellow community people around you. So, please mark your agenda with the following events to consider attending or volunteering near you!

Welcome New Ambassadors

Summary of traffic on Ambassadors mailing list

Nathaneal Lee informed [1] about an upcoming online event organized by the Fedora Community in China in line with the Fedora 15 launch

Robyn Bergeron reminded [2] the decision around NA FUDCon to be taken at the Ambassadors meeting. Jared Smith followed up [3] by posting the Meeting Minutes [4] and informing that Blacksburg was preferred over Olin. In the same thread [5]John Rose pointed out the difficulties of selecting a FUDCon location when a lot of high quality and intensive effort goes on towards creating a good bid for a FUDCon, often leading to disappointment.

David Ramsey informed [10] that till date there are 14 Fedora Release Events around Fedora 15 planned at APAC [11]. The Meeting Minutes from the APAC Ambassadors meeting on 2011-04-30 [12] were also posted [13]

David Ramsey informed [19] about the set of special APAC weekly meetings that have been requested and asked participants to use a survey [20] to decide on a reasonable time. Further along the thread [21] it appeared that 1000 and 1100 UTC are the preferred times for the participants.